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  2. Segment (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a segment is "any discrete unit that can be identified, either physically or auditorily, in the stream of speech". [1] The term is most used in phonetics and phonology to refer to the smallest elements in a language , and this usage can be synonymous with the term phone .

  3. Speech segmentation - Wikipedia

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    Speech segmentation is the process of identifying the boundaries between words, syllables, or phonemes in spoken natural languages.The term applies both to the mental processes used by humans, and to artificial processes of natural language processing.

  4. Phonemic awareness - Wikipedia

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    Phoneme isolation: which requires recognizing the individual sounds in words, for example, "Tell me the first sound you hear in the word paste" (/p/). Phoneme identity: which requires recognizing the common sound in different words, for example, "Tell me the sound that is the same in bike, boy and bell" (/b/).

  5. Synthetic phonics - Wikipedia

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    Sounds are taught in all positions of the words, but the emphasis is on all-through-the-word segmenting and blending from week one. It does not teach whole words as shapes ( initial sight vocabulary ) prior to learning the alphabetic code.

  6. Phonological awareness - Wikipedia

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    Phonemic awareness relates only to speech sounds, not to alphabet letters or sound-spellings, so it is not necessary for students to have alphabet knowledge in order to develop a basic phonemic awareness of language. Phonological awareness tasks (adapted from Virginia Department of Education (1998): [12] and Gillon (2004) [1] Listening skills

  7. Phonological development - Wikipedia

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    Sound is at the beginning of language learning. Children have to learn to distinguish different sounds and to segment the speech stream they are exposed to into units – eventually meaningful units – in order to acquire words and sentences.

  8. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The general principle of the IPA is to provide one letter for each distinctive sound (speech segment). [ note 3 ] This means that: It does not normally use combinations of letters to represent single sounds, the way English does with sh , th and ng , nor single letters to represent multiple sounds, the way x represents /ks/ or /ɡz/ in English.

  9. Distinctive feature - Wikipedia

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    Laryngeal features: The features that specify the glottal states of sounds. [+/− voice] [7] This feature indicates whether vibration of the vocal folds occurs with the articulation of the segment. [+/− spread glottis] [7] Used to indicate the aspiration of a segment, this feature denotes the openness of the glottis. For [+sg], the vocal ...